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Add mass of wires and cables to assy (C&H library objects)

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Maxim-CADman77
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Add mass of wires and cables to assy (C&H library objects)

Seems like Inventor ignores wires and cables when calculating mass of the whole assy.

Any suggestions on how to workaround this?

Thanks in advance.

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Just FYI, if you like us would like to have this functionality you would probably need to:
1. Add length-mass (we call it "Gram_per_Meter") as custom property to each of you wire/cable definition in IWL.
2. Code your own app that would callback/intercept saving C&H sub-assy event and would parse IWL for the values of length-mass and calculate and override mass of C&H assy (for each wire multiply length-mass to its length etc).

...At least it works for us so far...


PS: According to techsupport answer Autodesk is not going to improve anything regarding this "limitation for the time being".

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